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A Growing Problem for Materialists

by Sea Breeze in

the famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.

matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.

scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.

waton

a straw-man who apparently denies the existence of the non-material

cofty, since you seem to deny, disparage the existence of the non- material [information] are you calling yourself a straw man?

straw = without solid core, full of air

kidding aside, The "god of the gaps", hiding in the yet to be closed voids in our knowledge is alive and well. At least we we will, in narrowing it discover the works of a possible creator, shaper. and

as you have pointed out, he can be nothing as depicted in the old fairy tales.

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A Growing Problem for Materialists

by Sea Breeze in

the famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.

matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.

scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.

waton

the nature of 'information'. Your original sin is equivocation.
Cofty, please give us the benefit of the doubt, accept the broadest definition of information. so
would wisdom be information? I came upon this: Prov 8, "wisdom" existed before the creation of the material world. so it says.
I was trying to bolster Sea Breeze's fascination with waves, because it says somewhere in the scriptures that the Earth was brought forth like in birth pangs. You can see these "waves" printed out as they happen. or how about "brain waves" ? so:
recent images and articles confirm that the rings, precursors of planets, in accretion disks of new stars are the result of resonances, standing waves. Our solar system displays a 5 minutes, (.3 AU ) wavelength / frequency bsw.
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Today s wt

by road to nowhere in

quote from the introduction:.

some apparently claimed to have received a special, mystical knowledge from god.e but their teaching contradicted jesus’ message and encouraged selfishness and a lack of love.

so john calls these teachers antichrists, or those who teach against christ.

waton

while paying lip service to the noble bereans, their play is to suffocate research, analysis, critical, truthful thinking.

eu truth is what is good for the otg, only lightly attached here and there to reality.

wt solution for those that see TATT, in position to free themselves> make them feel good

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A Growing Problem for Materialists

by Sea Breeze in

the famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.

matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.

scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.

waton

---unplanned and unintended happenstance --MF

Only wt adherents take it upon themselves to read the mind of their god all the time.

It is a valid question. The making of the universe, our solar system, the firing up of life, our functioning brains are certainly milestones we have not been able to replicate, even satisfactorily explain.

imho the creator has the wherewithal, and could have endowed the early beginning with all the embodied information that is needed to bring these events about in time. ***. Did he take a personal hand in abiogenesis for example?

If we never succeed to copy it, would be one way to find out.

*** one theory suggests that multiple universes came into existence, many, with flawed information flow or laws failed. Our"s exist and we, because by chance all went well here. Survival of the fittest ata cosmic scale.

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The anointed are martyrs

by Listener in

i didn't realize this watchtower teaching before but they teach that the anointed (which include the governing body die a sacrificial death.

fortunately, we have the governing body to explain that for us -watchtower 06 2/15 states.

the apostle paul later spoke of christians’ being “baptized into [christ’s] death.” (romans 6:3) the anointed live a life of sacrifice.

waton

L: thank you for pulling those quotes together. the missing link in this scenario is, that according to John 6, it is the partaking that imparts the right to restored perfect life on earth, called everlasting life. It is this destiny that the anointed sacrifice. In other words partaking is really a prerogative of the Other Sheep, it should be they that keep and not sacrifice that destiny. ( jesus fed the emblems to people with an earthly hope, not anointed bsw).

Rev 20 adds another condition to rule with Christ for a 1000 years though, To be literally sacrificed with the axe. Just declaring your death as sacrificial, better than other demises just will not do., biblically. just trading everlasting life for immortality at your last breath?

How does wt writers think that all will eventually get everlasting life, the so-called OS, without feeding them the Bread and the Wine?

The memorial is supposed to stop being held at the outset of the great Tribulation, not into the 1000 year reign. will John 6 be declared null and void?

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A Growing Problem for Materialists

by Sea Breeze in

the famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.

matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.

scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.

waton

In one sense DNA contains information but that is nothing but a metaphor. In reality it is just chemicals doing their thing. C:

We know you like the life sciences, and DNA is a superb information carrier in it's structure. but are not all developments depending on the "structure" of their "preceding structures", so that it is the information that is passed along,survives temporarily, , while the previous carrier may not exist any more, have "passed on" in more sense then one. are not all things carriers of information, that can be extracted, not just photons, sound waves, dinosaur footprints?

is not the information there, embodied, whether it is "read" or not?

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A Growing Problem for Materialists

by Sea Breeze in

the famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.

matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.

scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.

waton

I didn't bold anything you F..ing idiot.

Are you trying to suggest that god the grand creator of the universe guided that huge asteroid MF:

sorry, I added the bold as stated, to mark what I was referring to.

Waton: No, what I am saying, that the universe acts in such a way is so flexible, to come up with unexpected beneficial results, like fertilizing BC fishing grounds with carbon from Oregon forest fires. (food for plankton and thought.

newton was not referring in the "nudge" remark to catastrophes, but regularity.

I am imagining the "creator" as an entity so advanced, it can create out of co-eternal energy a totally self-creating universe or two, without having to tinker, or aim. It would not be farfetched to call it "father" which says it all. .

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A Growing Problem for Materialists

by Sea Breeze in

the famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.

matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.

scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.

waton

If there comes a time when a huge asteroid comes directly to are planet creating a colossal impact and knowingly this is going kill just about every living thing on this planet, similar to how one did 40 million years ago " bold added MF.

we have information gleaned from research, that meteor, asteroid, comet impacts were shapers of life and the deliverers chemicals that sustains it. Even the event , that (contrary to Newton's belief)* "knowingly" killed the big ones, gave our forebearers the niche we needed to thrive.

* Isaac believed that god need to nudge the bodies of the solarsystem once in a while to keep their places for so long.

The "systems" in the universe are in many ways self correcting, or are destied to go out of existence. It is the existence ion the foirst place that is so remarkable.

1) communicating data to another sentient being. 2) technical, subject of information theory.) Cofty,

those are very narrow definitions. "information ' as used by us lowly laypersons to be understood in a broader, all encompassing sense, info existing, conveyed in many ways, usually seen seen in the context.

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A Growing Problem for Materialists

by Sea Breeze in

the famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.

matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.

scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.

waton

Sea breeze is pulling an old creationist trick in positing that the universe had to come from a intelligent ---MF :

The alternative trick would be even trickier, proposing that the universe made itself, not even like a chicken makes itself from a fertilized egg, which has all the information, instructions and material to warm up with, but out of absolutely nothing.

has never been observed, why would it be true of the universe? a slightly bigger job?

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JW's Not Members anymore but Individuals

by pistolpete in

i've been waiting for someone to post this and i've haven't seen it yet, perhaps i overlooked it since i don't visit that often.. but here is the link to the discussion.

in it you will find letters and links to this new light.

whether it's true or not, please verify.. as of .

waton

what is the latest baptism question relating to organisation membership" " do you understand -- to be part of Jehovah's 's organisation (not spirit directed any more)?

can you be a part but not a member?